Mind Maps and an Invitation

Dear friend,

I’m participating in something unique and exciting! It is a Crash Course on Creativity by Tina Seelig, the Executive Director of Stanford Technology Ventures Program. She is a prestigious person with a vast experience teaching about creativity. The diversity of this course is amazing, there are thousands of students from all over the world.

The structure of the course is pretty simple: Each Monday our teacher releases a new assignment. They are all directed to cultivating your creativity. So far we have completed one project, the second one is due next Monday. There will be a total 0f 6 projects in this course.

The first project was a book cover for your imaginary autobiography. Each student created a book cover and we also had to write a 200-word text talking about ourselves. The main idea with this assignment was to get to know each other.

The second assignment involves creating a mind map. It is due next Monday but I completed mine yesterday (see the photos above). The assignment consists in taking a 30-minute-long walk somewhere, while paying attention to the surroundings. Then the students are expected to create a mind map based on our observations.

I invite you to participate in this course. If you cannot get fully involved with the assignments at this time, you can be there just as an observer. New editions of this course will come up in the future. I believe that you’re going to enjoy it and appreciate it. To sign up click on this button: Sign Up!

Some assignments are created in groups. I created a group called: Adventure time. Here is the description:

Adventure Time is about making the most out of this course. Let’s learn something new while collaborating and having fun. Go team!

If you do sign up, my name over there is Elsa Mora, you can find me over the students category. If you want to be part of my team as a member or as an observer, just contact me from the course page (there is a way to send communications from within the course) and send me your e-mail so I can add you to my group. Update: our team is closed now, but you can still observe our dynamic by signing up for the course.

Have a wonderful day!

Elsita

(Don’t hesitate to ask me any questions about this course if you need to)

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Lorraine
May 1, 2013

Dear Elsita,
So delighted. I’ve just signed up. Thank you for making this and yourself so available. Your confidence in your vast reservoir so that you share and love easily is an example to me of the world I want to live in. This will be an interesting way to interact.
Love, Lorraine x

When you wrote about that on facebook it was already very hard to resist, but I did mostly because I’m taking that other one on Design, from coursera ( the one I left the link there). But after reading this post, how could I resist!! What a fun assigment the first one!
I’m there too, just signed up. Thanks for sharing Glaucia Burgi recently posted..Meanwhile, at the lab/kitchen…

Hi Elsa
I found this wonderful magical (i cant describe better than this) website from your profile in Venture Lab. I also enroll in Crash Creativity class.
great to know that my virtual class mate has beautiful masterpieces
I love your mind map

We are MindMaple, a mind mapping software that helps users to think outside of box meanwhile to organize their crazy ideas! We just want to let you know that we love your mind map creation so much and hope that we could share it with our users/ followers Please let us know if we have your permission to do so! Check our website or FB: https://www.facebook.com/MindMaple

We are MindMaple, a mind mapping software that helps users to think outside of box meanwhile to organize their crazy ideas! We just want to let you know that we love your mind map creation so much and hope that we could share it with our users/ followers Please let us know if we have your permission to do so! Check our website or FB: https://www.facebook.com/MindMaple